Brian Botton wrote: I'm sure it was, and you licensed use of it along with licensing use of the snubber design. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave.,

jim_mischke wrote: The article on these in Railway Age implied, but did not state exactly, that these were end-of-car cushioning devices. Is that true? Tony Thompson Editor,

I guess they must have had some old stock, or maybe a damaged wheel was replaced with an older one. Thanks for the web site, it was interesting. Thanks, Brian Botton

Looonnnggg day at work today, so the late responses. That's interesting. The '43 and '46 cyclopedias comes across as if "ride control" was an ASF trademark. Thanks for the info, Brian

Marty, I can't remember if any specifically asked before -- is Intermountain's FGE reefer of a different prototype than the Accurail reefer? Tim O'Connor

Fred, It's easy, the answer is of course -- in fact, half of the cars on the A&D were ACL as the "primary connecting road" -- 25% were Southernas the "secondary" road, etc . . . no more than 5%

John, Looks like the prototype class that was used for the new InterMountain FGE HO scale reefer. I have a sample car built -- right now I'm trying to locate decals. When I do I'll post photos

Brothers, If anybody's got a recent e-mail for Charlie, can you please drop me a note offline at Golden1014@...? Thanks, John John Golden O'Fallon, IL

Hello everyone, A quick check of the NEB&W website revealed fishbelly hoppers in the following numbers on anthracite hauling roads in 1949: CNJ/CRP: 999 cars in one number series D&H: 2993 cars in

"PSF" might stand for Pittsburgh Steel Foundry Corporation, one of the members on the Four Wheel Truck Committee (I think that's what the committee were called). Brian Leppert Carson City, NV

Interesting. I can't confirm this, and I can't refute it. However, ERIE rostered no fishbelly hoppers (assuming we're referring to the design that the Stewart model is based on). DL&W, "The Road

I have only seen one photo of the "standard" tanks in the water service where the reporting marks a readable, and even then it was only one car. It was GATX car, number 21760. This is on pg 77 of Vol

Keith Jordan asked: vintage searches have You might try contacting Arrowhead directly to see if they have something: http://www.arrowheadwater.com/AboutUs/ContactUs.aspx If that doesn't work, talk

Hello everyone, I'm in need of some Grandt Line door guides, like those on this B&M 1924 ARA boxcar by Ted Culotta: http://www.steamfreightcars.com/modeling/models/culotta/bm71968main.htm l Are

Does anybody have information on Arrowhead-Puritas Waters' water service tank cars? I'm not referring to the "bottle" cars, the ones with the tanks on flat cars. It appears there were some cars in

Burlington had 2 classes of box cars with 4/5 Dreadnaught ends and 9'4" IH. The first group (XM-29) had sides that look something like the classic XM-25/XM-26 (i.e. 6 diagonal braces per side) and

The statements below are not correct. In 1954 Greenville Steel Car Company built 140 XME box cars (Office Order 636) for the General American lease fleet that were placed into the GAEX 100000-124999

Try www.readytrain.com. Mansell Peter Hambly Coquitlam, BC

I have no record of these cars ever going to URTX but I keep finding out new things every day. For those who are curious about why a build date is on the end of the car, this is a home made paint

Hello Arnold Blackcat Publishing in Winnipeg makes decals for the CNR cars, set BC096 and for CPR cars, set BC009. I do not believe that he has a website. Locally for me, TMR Distributing carries them